Speakers 2025

Kristy has been involved in the production of factual television for more than 15 years, travelling across remote parts of Australia, India, Africa, China and South East Asia with a content focus on trade, international relations and agriculture.

She currently carries the mantle of the West Australian & Northern Territory Reporter/Presenter for flagship ABC programs ‘Landline’, ‘Backroads’ and ‘Movin to the Country’.

Previously she worked in the fast-paced world of news as a Reporter, Chief of Staff and Producer at the Seven Network and ABC. At the ABC she’s also produced stories for Australian Story, 7:30 and ‘Old People’s Home for Teenagers’, and she recently provided journalistic insight and narration on the hit Netflix series ‘Last Stop Larrimah’.

In 2025 she was named the National Rural Press Club Journalist of the Year and won the Australian Council of Agriculture Journalists’ Star Prize for Rural Broadcasting. In addition to this she was the overall NT/SA Rural Media Journalist of the Year 2024 as well as Best Radio Journalist & Best Broadcast Journalist.

Kristy has worked on several independent documentaries and was awarded the Access@AIDC internship as Australia’s emerging young Producer in 2014. As part of this award, she went to London to work with Jamie Oliver’s Fresh One Productions as a Producer/Field Director. Upon moving back to Australia, she was named in the Screen Producer Australia’s Ones to Watch program and financed to complete an internship placement with WildBear Entertainment in Sydney. She directed and produced several international documentary projects for the company. In 2015 her first documentary as Executive Producer & Writer, Tough Ride, was broadcast on ABC television.